<b>Snowboarder Owen Pick will be Great Britain's flagbearer at the Winter Paralympics opening ceremony in South Korea on Friday.</b><p>Games debutant Pick, 26, lost his leg aged 18 while serving with the British Army in Afghanistan.<p>He will lead out the British team at the 35,000-capacity Pyeongchang Olympic …

<b>The Winter Paralympics are taking place in Pyeongchang, South Korea, from March 9 to 18.</b><p>The event will feature 670 athletes competing for 80 medals across six sports.<p>Here's the day-by-day guide to what to look out for at Pyeongchang 2018 - and the likely highlights for Great Britain and other …

It seems like just two weeks ago that Yuna Kim lit the Olympic cauldron to get the 2018 Winter Games started. But now it’s over. So much to recap, so little space.<p><b>Winner: Elizabeth Swaney</b><p>Sure, she doesn’t do any tricks on the halfpipe and, sure, her Hungarian roots are thin at best and, sure, many …

Every two years, athletes scrape the grime and graft off of the Olympics, and restore them to magnificence. We should demand that the Jessie Digginses, Red Gerards, John Shusters and Lamoureux sisters become the genuine focus of this country's Olympic movement. Congress should knock down the U.S. …

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (Reuters) - American Alpine skiers have walked away from Pyeongchang Games without major injuries but the same can not be said of their skis, which were severely damaged by the extreme weather conditions in South Korea, a U.S. ski technician said.<p>Alpine Skiing - Pyeongchang …

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (Reuters) - Having fallen way short of their Olympic medal target, the U.S. team said on Sunday it would take a hard look at what went wrong in South Korea, and a long look at who fared well.<p>Alpine Skiing - Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics - Women's Alpine Combined - …

You want the moment to last beyond that split-second in time, to slow it down, because when Maddie Rooney stopped that final puck off the stick of Canada's Meghan Agosta, history happened. Not 24 hours later, after they had slept with their medals, the women of the U.S. hockey team were trying to …

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (Reuters) - American Lindsey Vonn ended her Olympics on Thursday vowing that she would not quit the sport until she had beaten Ingemar Stenmark’s record of World Cup wins and become the most successful skier of all time.<p>Alpine Skiing - Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics - …

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (Reuters) - Surprise successes, shocking failures and a dizzying number of scheduling changes made for a turbulent three weeks in Pyeongchang for Mikaela Shiffrin, but the American said she is walking away happy after taking silver in Thursday’s combined.<p>Medals Ceremony - …

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (Reuters) - Lara Gut endured a new twist in her Pyeongchang Olympic nightmare on Wednesday when four years of preparation for the women’s downhill were ruined after just half a minute.<p>Alpine Skiing - Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics - Women's Downhill Training - Jeongseon …

GANGNEUNG, South Korea – Mirai Nagasu’s Olympic destiny was always going to rest on a single jump, on the edge of a blade, in a tiny window of opportunity and time.<p>So it proved on Wednesday afternoon here, when the American blasted into the air 23 seconds into her short program and attempted to …

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (Reuters) - Here’s a short guide to the women’s Alpine combined, which will run on Thursday after being brought forward by a day because of forecast high winds at the Jeongseon Alpine Centre:<p>Alpine Skiing - Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics - Women’s Downhill Training - …

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (Reuters) - Switzerland’s Michelle Gisin held off the might of American Alpine skiing to win the women’s combined at the Pyeongchang Games on Thursday, claiming victory ahead of Mikaela Shiffrin while her fellow Swiss Wendy Holdener won bronze.<p>Alpine Skiing - Pyeongchang …

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (Reuters) - America’s women Alpine ski team acknowledged there will be a void when all-time great Lindsey Vonn eventually leaves the sport but pointed to Wednesday’s downhill results in Pyeongchang Games as proof they can contend for podiums for years to come.<p>Alpine Skiing …

<b>Pyeongchang, South Korea (CNN) —</b> Lindsey Vonn said she "left it all on the line" as she had to settle for bronze in downhill in what is likely to be her final Olympics.<p>The most successful women's ski racer of all time was one of the pre-race favorites, but the 33-year-old could not match the pace …

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (Reuters) - Sofia Goggia carved up the Jeongseon slope “like a Samurai” to win the women’s downhill on Wednesday and leave American Lindsey Vonn with a bronze medal in her final run in the marquee event of Olympic Alpine skiing.<p>Alpine Skiing - Pyeongchang 2018 Winter …

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (Reuters) - Mikaela Shiffrin said she was relieved that the decision to reschedule the combined event to Thursday from Friday had effectively ruled her out of competing in the downhill at the Pyeongchang Olympics.<p>Alpine Skiing - Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics - Women's …

<b>(CNN) —</b> Trolled on social media, Lindsey Vonn has a message for the people targeting her online -- they haven't "won."<p>The US skier has been intermittently abused on social media after she told CNN in an interview in December that she wouldn't visit the White House should she win a medal at the …